SOLDIERS PRACTISING MORTAR FIRE
Full length video
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Title: SOLDIERS PRACTISING MORTAR FIRE
Reference number: 8313
Date: 1941*
Director: [filmed by Richard H.S. Irvine]
Sound: silent
Original format: std. 8mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: Non-Fiction
Running time: 4.19 mins
Description: Amateur footage of soldiers practising mortar firing near Razmak army training camp, a base for the King's Own Scottish Borderers, in Waziristan on the North-West Frontier of India around the start of World War II.
Shotlist:
[shot-listed from VHS - manual control track]
gvs of snow-covered scrubland and mountains near Razmak camp - soldiers in winter uniform smile at camera - gv landscape, road with telegraph poles, outpost on hilltop, pan along road down hillside (2.09) gvs landscape and soldiers on road, Red Cross truck on road - mid shots of group of soldiers in emplacement in valley firing mortars near gate 8 of Razmak camp, observers behind watching progress (4.19)